Improvement in whip-sockets



.l. W. H. DU UBLER.

Whip-Sockets.

No, 144,073, Patented 0ct. 28,1873l.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN W. H. DOUBLER, OF ALDEN, NEW YORK.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,073, dated October 28, 1873; application filed August 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN W. H. DOUBLER, of Alden, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in W hip-Sockets, of which the following specification is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in which- Figurel represents a front view of my improved whip-socket; Fig. 2, a side view, and Fig. 3 a plan view, of the same.

Similar letters of reference are used in the designation of corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of Whip-sockets termed skeletonsockets; and it consists of a vertical bar having its lower end provided with a halfsocket or seat for the reception or support of the butt endof the whip, and its upper end supplied with a right-hand clamp or curved arm, and a second or left hand clamp or curved arm supplied thereto at a point some distance below the clamp at the upper end thereof, or, say, about equidistant from the latter-named clamp and the half-socket or seat, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

In the annexed drawings, A refers to a vertical bar, the lower end of which .is formed with a half-socket or seat, B, to receive the butt end of the whip, and which socket or seat is inclined toward the left-hand or middle clamp, so as to bring its hollowed surface or bottom in a line with a vertical plane passing through the space or area encircled by the latter clamp and its fellow, for the purpose, as above intimated, of receiving and supporting the lower or butt end of the whip-handle, as well as to assist in clamping it in place. It is caused to clamp or assist in clamping the whiphandle in its place, by reason of its inclined surface forming the bottom of the socket, as

plainly seen in Figs. 1 and 3. This half-socket or seat is, preferably, slotted to add lightness and beauty to the socket. O is a right-hand clamp or curved arm extending in front of and from the upper end of the vertical bar A; and D, a left-hand clamp or similarly-curved arm also extending in front of and from the ver tical bar A, but located some distance below the upper clamp G, or at apoint about equidistant from the latter-named clamp and the half-socket or seat B.

Through this arrangement of the clamps a twofold purpose is accomplished--first, the clampsbeinguponoppositesides ofthe sockets,

or, in other words, right-and-left handed, and out of a horizontal plane with each other, they are enabled not only to encircle the whip-handle, but to catch or sustain the same at diifen ent points; secondly, a comparatively quite large space between the two clamps is provided, by which the whip can be inserted into the whip-socket obliquely, which is attended with much less trouble and care than inserting it perpendicularly, as has to be done in the use of the ordinary whip-socket.

Perforated lugs 00 a are supplied to the bar A for enabling the socket to be fastened to the dash-board. I preferably cast the socket as made and described in one and of the same piece.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The whip-socket, composed of the bar A, having the inclined half-socket or seat B and the right-and-left hand clamps or curved arms 0 and D, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 20th day of August, 1-873, in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. H. DOUBLER.

Witnesses:

FRANK METZGER, JEROME J. STICKNEY. 

